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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-1000115: Security patch for mercurial (ALAS-2017-893)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-1000115: Security patch for mercurial (ALAS-2017-893)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
09/13/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/20/2017
Modified
08/25/2020

Description

Mercurial prior to version 4.3 is vulnerable to a missing symlink check that can malicious repositories to modify files outside the repository

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-mercurial

References

  • ALAS-2017-893
  • DSA-3963
  • CVE-2017-1000115

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